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Technical Notice
| Classical Composer: | Handel, George Frideric |
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| Work: | Concerto Grosso in B Minor, Op. 6, No. 12, HWV 330 |
| Year Composed: | 1739 |
| Instrumentation: | 2vn.vcconc/str/bc |
| Publishers: |
C.F. Peters Frankfurt G. Schirmer, Inc. Edwin F. Kalmus Schott Music Bärenreiter Verlag John Walsh Deutsche Handelgesellschaft Edition Eulenburg Breitkopf & Härtel C.F. Peters Corporation Oxford University Press Edition Kevin Mallon |
| Duration: | 00:07:00 |
| Period: | Baroque (1600-1750) |
| Work Category: | Concerto |
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In his Concerti grossi Handel was using a form that had been established in the late seventeenth century, particularly through composers such as Corelli, with whom he had played during his time in Rome. The set of twelve Concerti grossi that form Opus 6, published in London by John Walsh in 1740, use, as Corelli and many of his successors had done, a small solo group of two violins and cello in contrast with the rest of the string orchestra. An earlier set of similar works, published in 1734 and using wind instruments in addition to strings and basso continuo, had been derived from a variety of earlier sources. The Opus 6 concerti were all written with a direct view to their publication and were composed consecutively between 29 September and 20 October 1739.
The last of the set, Opus 6, No.12, in B minor, starts with the suggestion, at least, of an overture, an introductory Largo, followed by a livelier section of imitative writing. There is a short slow movement, in a texture of only three parts, as opposed to the usual four-part writing, and this is expanded in a following variation, over a moving bass. The two solo violins of the concertino and the solo cello weave their own pattern in a further slow movement, before the final fugal Allegro.
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